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                                                                  DAY 213
 
                                            SEMIR KHAZNA, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1   Q.   You have?
     2        A.  Yes.
     3
     4   Q.   Can you explain, not the top left-hand side, but the bottom
     5        half of the document?  You have got various employees; then
     6        we have got -- what is "new occ code"; is that their
     7        grading or something?
     8        A.  That is the occupation code.
     9
    10   Q.   Does that mean grade 1 is -- well, you tell us what it
    11        means?
    12        A.  I could not tell you what each code stands for, off the
    13        top of my head, no.
    14
    15   Q.   Patel and Sandu, I suppose, were they Floor Managers?
    16        A.  Sorry, which two?
    17
    18   Q.   Patel and Sandu -- near the bottom of the column?
    19        A.  I cannot remember.
    20
    21   Q.   You do not remember?
    22        A.  No.
    23
    24   Q.   It does not matter.  Can you explain what the "new reg
    25        rates" column means, and then the difference, plus and
    26        minus?
    27        A.  The new rate is what their rate is at that current
    28        status.  The plus and minus is the difference between their
    29        evening and their new rate.
    30
    31   Q.   It says "new evening rate" -----
    32        A.  Sorry?
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think that is -----
    35
    36   MR. MORRIS:  That is just the unsocial hours grade?
    37        A.  The new rate is what their day rate is, and the evening
    38        rate is what the evening rate is.
    39
    40   MR. MORRIS:   I think Mr. Rampton might know what these are.
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It seems to me fairly obvious at the
    43        moment -- though that is probably an absolute guarantee
    44        that I am wrong -- that the new rate includes any
    45        increase.  So that Mr. Lemaire has had an increase of
    46        35 pence an hour, which has taken him to £4.15 regular
    47        hours; that the other people, even though they have got
    48        quite a large figure under the differential, if that figure
    49        is the same as the new rate, it is just the way the
    50        computer shows that they have not had an increase. 
    51        A.  There is no change.  If it says £3.15 and the 
    52        difference is £3.15, there has been no change in the scale. 
    53
    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   What I thought you are were trying to get at
    55        was this, was to see what the proportion of people who got
    56        raises when they were proposed during a pay period.  So let
    57        us assume that what I have said is right so far.  Ask about
    58        that.
    59
    60   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I wanted the witness to sort of enlighten us
 
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